# instruction
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English instruccioun, from Old French instruccion, from Latin instructio; equivalent to instruct +‎ -ion.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɪnˈstɹʌkʃən/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌkʃən

### Noun

instruction (countable and uncountable, plural instructions)
* (uncountable) The act of instructing, teaching, or providing with information or knowledge.
    Students receive instruction in the arts and sciences.
    Instruction will be provided on how to handle difficult customers.
** 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 5, in Pulling the Strings:Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”
* (countable) An instance of the information or knowledge so furnished.
** c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:If my instructions may be your guide.
* (countable) An order or command.
** 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
* (in the plural) A set of directions provided by a manufacturer for the users of a product or service.
* (law, in the plural) The directions given by a client to their lawyer in relation to a particular legal matter, which govern the purpose and scope of their work.
    I cannot act until I have taken instructions from my client.
* (computing) A single operation of a processor defined by an instruction set architecture.

#### Synonyms

* See also Thesaurus:instruction

#### Derived terms

* absolute instruction
* instructional
* instruction cycle
* instructionless
* instruction time
* machine instruction
* macroinstruction
* malinstruction
* medium of instruction
* microinstruction
* misinstruction
* nanoinstruction
* noninstruction
* ostrich instruction
* overinstruction
* postinstruction
* preinstruction
* pseudoinstruction
* reinstruction
* subinstruction
* teleinstruction
* universal design for instruction

#### Translations

Afrikaans: onderrig
Arabic: تَعْلِيم (ar) m (taʕlīm)
Bengali: তালিম (bn) (talim)
Bulgarian: обучение (bg) n (obučenie), инструктаж (bg) m (instruktaž)
Catalan: instrucció (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 教導 / 教导 (zh) (jiàodǎo)
Danish: vejledning c
Dutch: onderwijs (nl) n
Egyptian: (sbꜣyt f)
Esperanto: instruado
Finnish: opastus (fi), opettaminen (fi), ohjaaminen (fi)
French: instruction (fr) f
German: Unterricht (de) m
Greek: οδηγία (el) f (odigía), εκπαίδευση (el) f (ekpaídefsi), εντολή (el) f (entolí), κατάρτιση (el) f (katártisi)
Hebrew: הוראה (he) f (Hora'ah)
Hindi: तालीम (hi) f (tālīm), उपदेश (hi) m (updeś), शिक्षण (hi) m (śikṣaṇ)
Hungarian: útmutatás (hu), oktatás (hu), tanítás (hu), képzés (hu), kiképzés (hu), tanfolyam (hu)
Indonesian: instruksi (id)
Irish: teagasc m
Italian: istruzione (it) f, addestramento (it) m, insegnamento (it) m, tirocinio (it) m
Kazakh: нұсқаулық (nūsqaulyq)
Kyrgyz: нускама (nuskama)
Latin: īnstructiō f, doctrina f, disciplina f, auditio
Malay: arahan (ms)
Malayalam: നിർദ്ദേശം (niṟddēśaṁ)
Marathi: शिक्षण n (śikṣaṇ)
Norwegian: veiledning
Persian: آموزه (fa), آموزش (fa)
Portuguese: instrução (pt) f
Romanian: instruire (ro) f, învățare (ro) f, învățământ (ro) n
Russian: инстру́кция (ru) f (instrúkcija), инструкта́ж (ru) m (instruktáž), наставле́ние (ru) n (nastavlénije), обуче́ние (ru) n (obučénije)
Sanskrit: शिक्षण (sa) n (śikṣaṇa)
Scottish Gaelic: stiùireadh m, teagasg m
Swahili: agizo (sw)
Swedish: instruktion (sv) c, undervisning (sv) c, skolväsen (sv) n or c
Tocharian B: keklyauṣor
Urdu: اُپْدیش (ur) m (updeś) :
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### References

* “instruction”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

## French
### Etymology

From Latin īnstrūctiōnem.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɛ̃s.tʁyk.sjɔ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

instruction f (plural instructions)
* instruction
* teaching
* hearing (of a matter in court or similar)

#### Derived terms

* juge d’instruction

#### Related terms

* instruire

### Further reading

* “instruction”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.